FA CUP FINAL : CRYSTAL PALACE VS MANCHESTER CITY – 17/05/2025 (PHOTO – CRYSTAL PALACE CELEBRATE)

CRYSTAL PALACE LIFTED THE FA CUP TROPHY YESTERDAY FOR THE 1ST TIME IN THEIR 164-YEAR HISTORY, AFTER A RIVETING MATCH AGAINST MAN CITY, AND A GLORIOUS GOAL FROM EBERECHI EZE IN THE 16TH MINUTE!  (BELOW)

CRYSTAL PALACE HAD 7 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER CRACKER FROM MUNOZ WHICH WAS RULED OUT FOR BEING OFFSIDE. BUT IT WAS EZE’S GOAL THAT SHONE THROUGH, AS ALTHOUGH MAN CITY HAD 23 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING CRACKERS FROM DE BRUYNE, HAALAND AND MARMOUSH) THE SUPERB ‘INSTINCTUAL’ GOALKEEPING SKILLS OF DEAN HENDERSON ‘KNEW NO BOUNDS’, AND WAS EVEN ON ONE OCCASION READY TO DESPATCH THE BALL BEFORE IT HAD EVEN BEEN KICKED 😂 (OUTSIDE HIS BOX, FOR WHICH HE NARROWLY AVOIDED A RED CARD)

HENDERSON EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED HERE

IF ANYONE WAS UNPREPARED AS TO HOW GOOD THIS PLAYER IS, THEY WON’T BE ANY MORE! HE IS “THE BUSINESS!” AFTER CRYSTAL PALACE’S MITCHELL SLID INTO SILVA, A PENALTY WAS AWARDED TO MAN CITY, AND THE PLAYER’S THEMSELVES DECIDED THAT MARMOUSH SHOULD TAKE IT AS HE WAS READY.  HAALAND KISSED THE BALL AND HANDED IT TO MARMOUSH, WHO TOOK HIS TIME WITH HIS APPROACH, TRYING TO DISCONCERT HENDERSON, WITH A ‘SOFT-SHOE SHUFFLE’ BUT IT DIDN’T WORK! HENDERSON GUESSED IT RIGHT, AND SAVED THAT TOO!  SO ALL THE EXCITEMENT CULMINATED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO CRYSTAL PALACE, MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF THE THOUSANDS OF CRYSTAL PALACE FANS WHO HAD COME TO WEMBLEY TO WATCH THEIR HEROES!  WITH THE RESPECTFUL MAN CITY PLAYERS STAYING ON THE PITCH TO WATCH THEIR RIVALS LIFT THE TROPHY!  MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO CRYSTAL PALACE!

FA CUP FINAL : CRYSTAL PALACE VS MANCHESTER CITY – 17/05/2025